At the beginning of February, the AI chatbot Replika was ordered by the Italian data protection authority Garante to stop processing citizens’ personal data. The purpose of the AI software was to be a virtual ‘friend’ for social interactions that did not require age verification. The DPA found that the AI bot had processed children’s … Continue Reading
Higher legal safety with improved description texts With our current CMP update, we have further optimised legal safety in connection with the description texts. In total, the description texts of over 1,000 vendors in 16 different languages have been updated. Users of your website now have the opportunity to obtain even more detailed information about … Continue Reading
Please note, that we have started to deprecate old codes. The timeline for deprecation is 01 July 2023 and 31st of December 2023. Until then, you will need to find and replace old codes (depending on the age of the codes that you are using). This affects automatic blocking codes, manual/semiautomatic blocking codes, cookie list codes, vendor list codes, JS API access, AMP codes and mobile SDKs. Within the next months, we will also add a log on our end and inform clients in their dashboard when they are using old codes and a switch is necessary. Continue Reading
As an online user, you have probably encountered dark patterns several times. Dark patterns are deceptive designs that appear in many forms with the aim of manipulating users. They are in a gray area of legality; not quite legal, but not quite illegal either, although organizations like the noyb are actively fighting against them. Continue Reading
New Summary Report & New Design Options This month we made many small improvements. Of these improvements, we would like to present two features in particular:First, we’ve added an overview report (Menu > Reports > Overview). The report summarizes the information from various reports and creates a simple and quick overview of the performance of … Continue Reading
New Staging-Feature & Live-Push This month we add two new features to our CMP that will make your life easier when putting settings live: On the one hand, with the new staging function, we have created an easy way for customers to view and check all their CMP settings and customizations in a test version … Continue Reading
New legal requirements in the US from 01 Jan 2023: New CMP features for legislation in USA & Japan From January 2023, updated privacy regulations will come into force in the US and hence consentmanager is updating its support for these new regulations. In the US, these include: Virginia (VCDPA), Colorado (CPA), Utah (UCPA) and … Continue Reading
IAB GPP: The new IAB TCF replacement In September the IAB introduced its latest standard: IAB GPP. GPP stands for Global Privacy Platform. IAB GPP will replace and include the previous standard IAB TCF v2 in the future. The new standard has become necessary to reflect changes in various global privacy laws and compliance.With the … Continue Reading
The IAB introduced its latest standard in September: IAB GPP. What is behind it, how it is used and why GPP will be the replacement for IAB TCF v3, we explain here. IAB TCF v2 as a basis In Europe, since 2018, the IAB TCF v1 standard has been the benchmark when it comes to … Continue Reading
Crawler Report with new issues lists In order to make the analysis of the CMP data even more effective and not lose sight of the necessary adjustments, we have equipped the crawler report with new and helpful additional functions. Similar to the risk report, with the crawler report we have now broken down exactly what … Continue Reading
